A fired Grant County school board employee recently filed a lawsuit against the school board, citing a violation of the Kentucky Whistleblower statute and constitutional right to due process of the law.

Law enforcement and school officials are stressing that joking about threats of violence in school is no laughing matter. Even after the shooting tragedy in Marshall County and the 17 deaths at a Florida high school, threats made by students, real or not, are running rampant throughout the country, including in Grant County.